Your responsibilities will include:

* Preparing documentation for accountants
* Following up on incoming e-mails and telephone enquiries
* Help customers with product enquiries and provide initial support
* Preparing travel arrangements
* Manage filing of documents
* Manage contracts
* Take care of all office related issues
* Picking and packing orders that have to be shipped from the office
* Take care of issues raised by customers regarding orders or returns
* Ensure all sales are processed accordingly
* Ad hoc office duties ensuring smooth running of the office
* Stock management
* Relationship management with the Head Office in Paris

Essential Skills & requirements:

* Excellent written skills, articulate with good spelling and grammar
* Bi-lingual English and French or Fluent in French
* Experience of managing/filing invoices
* Worked under own initiative
* Able to establish efficient work processes
* 1 year office experience
* Being prompt and accurate
* Attention to detail
* Excellent communication and people skills
* Excellent eye for detail and great organisational skills
* Reliable with a flexible attitude and ability to take initiative

Located in Covent garden, Central London. The position would suit a person who wants to experience working for a busy B2B company pioneering next generation of interactive meetings and events.

Salary: £18k-£20k

Working a 40 hour week Monday – Friday

No agency please

info@powervote.co.uk

A series of workshops and the PowerVote voting system helped the Board canvass more than 1,000 company executives at the conference. The feedback was used to influence the proceedings and to promote interaction throughout the event.

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Organised by the Mexican Psychiatry Association and sponsored by AstraZeneca, the medical symposium featured presentations by national and international experts, including Dr. Manuel Sánchez de Carmona, President of the Mexican branch of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD), Dr Mark A. Frye, Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, USA and Prof. Allan H. Young, Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College London, UK.

Professor Allan H. Young, keynote speaker at the symposium, already had experience of presenting to audiences in multiple locations. According to the Professor: “A dispersed audience may present technical difficulties and feel less personal. Bringing many specialists together and reaching a larger number of individuals in a single session achieves a greater synergy, is more convenient and cost effective. Both the remote participants and the organisers of the events benefit.”

The symposium audience consisted of 200 specialists in Mexico City and 450 scattered across a further 12 key Mexican cities. The remote audiences were able to follow the proceedings live via satellite. They participated fully in the debates and the clinical cases thanks to a chat facility allowing them to ask questions in real-time and electronic voting to answer questions, with instant feedback on the votes.

PowerVote’s technology was used to facilitate audience interaction in this complex multi-location set-up. The voting system allowed all the participants to answer a number of questions, with voting results instantly fed back to the speakers, who were also able to compare responses from all 13 cities. Together with the chat facility, this generated lively debate in spite of the geographically dispersed audience.

The audience and the speakers were very positive about using the technology. Dr. Manuel Sánchez de Carmona, President of the Mexican branch of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD), facilitated the symposium. In his experience, “multi-location events, such as the Taller Satelital en Psiquiatría, must rely on more than just a filmed presentation. Thanks to the satellite connection, the specialists were fully engaged in the meeting regardless of their location. They were most impressed with the technology and welcomed it. Throughout the day, I tried to ensure that the remote audience felt as involved in the proceedings as the core audience in Mexico City.”

Key success factors for medical symposiums relying heavily on technology to involve their audiences include thorough organisation and planning, full briefing and training of the speakers in the use of the technologies and provision of good technical back-up, as was the case at the multi-location symposium in Mexico. Dr. Manuel Sánchez de Carmona also adds: “Preparing a sound list of questions relevant to both the speakers and the audience is critical to ensure that the interactive technologies remain a valuable tool. Voting is very effective, be it whilst teaching or during meetings, to ascertain the audience’s knowledge on specific subjects.”

Professor Young concludes: “The use of the PowerVote system was an asset at the Taller Satelital en Psiquiatría. It allowed the audience to feel included and to participate remotely, leading to a more interesting event. Voting is a powerful tool to facilitate medical symposiums with satellite sites in multiple locations, as is a link to allow questions to be asked.”

Whilst retaining key features that have contributed to its appeal such as vote tracking by individual or teams, instant results display, multi-level analyses of the data, rankings and leaderboards, PowerVote Quizz 2012 offers new features and functionality designed to enhance customer benefits and to boost the interactive experience.

Not least is the PowerVote Quizz 2012 free licence, which makes the voting system accessible globally. In addition, the new version of the voting software features improvements to its user-friendliness, increased efficiency, improved navigation tools, extended compatibility with other systems, and ease of use through more interactive functions. The product also enables remote voting, to facilitate multi-location events and voting using a combination of different devices such as voting keypads, mobile phones or tablets for example. Finally, for seamless running of the system there is built-in automatic checking of software updates.

Didier Moulin, Managing Director of PowerVote UK said: “We constantly strive to enhance our customers’ experience, and I am delighted that our software engineers have developed this new, more accessible, versatile and user-friendly version of PowerVote Quizz. The new features and functionality mean that interactive response systems will be even easier to use in single or multiple locations.”

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For such large-scale events, preparation is the key. The specialist participant management and on-site project coordination company comware was briefed to source a voting system that would promote audience interaction and allow feedback and evaluation. PowerVote’s audience response system was quickly selected as the best solution for the Mercedes-Benz training programme thanks to its ease-of-use, full integration into Microsoft standard software, and the strength of its technical support.
Prior to the events, comware worked closely with Mercedez-Benz Global Training, a part of Daimler AG Group,  to turn their training content into interactive multilingual presentations that would develop a barometer of public opinion with questions about the product, as well as test the knowledge acquired as a result of the training. This was translated in 21 different languages for the global training programme.

The voting sessions took place in 12 workshops, each involving up to 360 voting keypads.
Before the events, comware was responsible for training Mercedes-Benz trainers in the use of the PowerVote system, enabling them to use it on their own. This reduced the technical support requirements to a minimum and promoted more direct interaction between the trainers and their individual groups.
Once the voting was completed, individual results were imported into a web-based tool programmed by comware. The results were displayed through real-time online reporting, bringing distinct benefits to the training, such as:

• voting results being immediately discussed within the groups, contributing to a better knowledge acquisition amongst the participants;
• certain topics could be instantly revisited if the results highlighted poor understanding amongst the participants;
• thanks to the PowerVote system, participants were fully engaged in the training process, leading to a better assimilation and retention of the course content.

Following several months of use for the Mercedes-Benz training events, Christian Kleffmann, Project Manager at comware, said: “We have found PowerVote to be a very reliable and robust interactive voting system. This positive experience has definitely convinced us to call on the PowerVote solution again in future contracts.”

About comware
German-owned comware TeilnehmerManagement specialises in solutions for the organisation and management of large-scale events, spanning from administration and software development to project coordination and on-site support. Established in 1990, the company manages national or international events involving audiences of 500-50,000.

The PowerVote stand will be showcasing our latest products and technologies. Our team will be available to advise visitors on means to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of their events and on the merits of individual solutions for their own requirements.

As the global exhibition for the meetings and events industry, EIBTM brings together more than 14,200 international industry professionals and 3,000 leading global suppliers expected to conduct more than 60,000 business appointments over three days. The event also features educational seminars, networking events and cutting edge technology previews.

Find out more about EIBTM, or contact PowerVote ahead of the show.

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Facilitated by BBC News presenter Bill Turnbull, the lively session also included 30 undergraduates voting with the state-of-the-art PowerVote Keypads to answer employer-driven questions around the impact of the higher tuition fees on the future quality of university graduates.

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Part of the 24th ECNP Congress held in Paris in September 2011, the session reviewed the latest treatment options to manage bipolar mania.

ECNP is the european college of neuropsychopharmacology. More information on ECNP and the Congress is available at http://www.ecnp-congress.eu/en/congress.

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